LIFE

 

The disarray of these pictures is so true to our life right now.

 

We are in our house and LOVING it. From the first night, sleeping on a hard wood floor in a sleeping bag, we have felt so at peace here. We know it is where we belong and we love it. The second night we had all of our stuff here and went to bed, in our nice comfy bed, with an unpacked bedroom, kitchen, and all the kid’s clothes and toys. Just the necessities! Day three we finished unpacking. Well, kind of. We are in the process of repainting and re-carpeting the entire basement. In order to not move things twice, we have only unpacked Kevin and Julia’s closets down there. Everything else will be unpacked later. I’m crossing my fingers (and praying) the carpet will be installed in ten days! 

Our ward branch has been great. In fact, the Relief Society President and her husband just dropped off dinner. Chicken and rice with home made rolls and COOKIES. Yes please!  We’ve also had dinner delivered by one other family and we have been over to the same families house for dinner (my first time, Cody’s third) and our neighbor has come over with cantaloupe and two boxes of girl scout cookies. Coolest neighbor ever…Right!?!? She knows the way to my heart.

Speaking of neighbors, I have them, two across the street and one on either side. I can’t see a single one of them. It’s weird, very weird.  We went to the library yesterday. Upon walking in we were asked if we were new. We either look out of place or the librarian knows all the locals. Both are very likely. She asked where we were from and what it was like. I was explaining to her how far, yet close we were to the big city. I said, “Our neighborhood was considered rural, but it is nothing compared to this.” She looked at me with a weird look and said, “Honey, this is not a rural area!” I had no reply. It takes me 27 minutes to get to the closest grocery store, 1 hour to walmart, my doctors office is 40 minutes away. If this isn’t rural, I think it’s plenty rural for me!  Anyway—Here are a few pictures, let me tell you a bit about them.

Our sun room is currently the play room. The only problem is it always looks like the play room has thrown up in the living/dining room. I’m trying my darndest to be patient about the whole ordeal, but I don’t handle messes. Surprise, John Oborn’s daughter doesn’t handle a mess, wonder where she got that?  Also, the computer, all of our furniture, the two couches and the oversized chair, and the book shelf are going in the basement and we got rid of our dining room table, so once the basement is finished, it will be super-d-duper empty upstairs. Ahhh!!! so nice!

Our yard is fabulous. In this pictures I’m standing on the back deck out the sun room. Kevin and Julia dug a whole and built a lean to shelter with these random things they found behind the house and in the woods. They have spent several hours every day in the back yard. One of my favorite parts is that there are so many windows I can see them! LOVE!!! I have yet to venture through the woods. We are on 2.65 acres. Cody took the kids down to the brook, which he swore was a small amount of trickling water, but after seeing it, he said it’s dangerous. It’s a big slope that goes into the water, that isn’t very deep, but as he described it, “deep enough for a drunk adult to drown.” Which I interpreted as, too dangerous for the kids!!!  He said if there weren’t tracks in the snow of where they had come from he would probably have taken awhile to get back. Needless to say, we have set very strict boundaries. Kevin understood when he was back by the water that there was no way he would find his way home, he later told me that it was too far away. I hope he remembers that.

The master bedroom is off the front of the house and shares a deck with the front door. Kind of odd, but being that we are so secluded, it really doesn’t matter. The master has a hallway that has the master bath and a few steps farther is the walk in closet/dressing room. This is my side. When I took the picture, Cody’s side was not picture worthy. I have since cleaned it, but still no picture. On the one wall is a desk separating two clothes racks and on the back wall is 3 rows of dressers that go about 6.5 feet tall. Plenty of room, which makes for a nice clean master bedroom.

On Friday morning while I was puttering, Cody took the restless kids out to sled down the driveway and off of the rock garden. Our drive way is shaped like an H. If you’re standing on the front deck, where I was taking these pictures. This side of our driveway goes all the way down to the side of the basement to a walk out door. If the snow wasn’t so crunchy the sledding would have been more enjoyable, but we laughed hysterically as the kids were sledding off of the rock garden. Maybe a weee bit dangerous, but they were having a great time.

As I mentioned before, messes and I don’t jive. This book shelf in the dining/living room was my piece of sanity. Until the basement is finished with all the painting this is the only décor I will enjoy upstairs.

Our little Lacey baby has handled the mayhem so well. She’s a trooper. Today she sat on my lap while I painted the edges in Julia’s room. She is the Princess of puttering and the Queen of destroying. All of our door nobs have the long handle on them, which means she can open all of them, which she LOVES. She is obsessed with Elena’s baby clothes and brings me something new to put on her baby doll at least ten times a day. And usually, I’m lucky if it’s only one thing and not the entire closet. She is still sleeping like a baby, which has made the move SO EASY!

Like I said, we started painting the basement. Kevin’s room is finished. It is blue and cream. Julia’s room is started, it is purple and pink. More pictures to come.

Our pantry is heavenly.

This was the first night we moved in. Before our moving truck came. We hauled some necessities in the back of the truck. But since we ended up closing late, we didn’t use any of them.

Anyway. That is our life… it’s just as mumbled jumbled as this was to read.